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JIILES MOREIN, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINI A.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,057, dated July 20,1886.

Application filed April 6, 1886. Serial No. 197,970.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ULEs MOREIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences, Railings,or Balconies; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures ofreference marked there on, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is arepresentation of my invention, and is anelevation of a section of the same. Fig. 2is aview of the larger castingof the cap-piece. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the cap-piece. Fig. 4is a view of the end of one of the posts or pickets. Fig. 5 is a view ofthe casting forming the socket for the posts, showing stringer. Fig. 6is a sec tion of the same. Fig. 7 is aview of the cast ing forming thesocket for the fence-pickets. Fig. 8 is a section of the same. Fig. 9 isa view showing stringer-joint.

Myinvention relates to iron fences; and it consists in the constructionand novel arrange ment of parts, as hereinafter described, and pointedout in the claims.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A A designate thestone or iron base-plates, in which the lower ends of the fence-posts Band B are stepped or seated in order to give the fence-panels thenecessary rigidity and stability when erected.

The fence-posts B and B are slightly enlarged for a short distance,commencing at their lower ends, as at B and their sockets are formed ofhalf-castings B and B, which are securely bolted together by rivets E E,passed through the flanges E of the castings, one on each side of thevertical body portion of the posts B or B, the lower connections forsaid posts being the same in all instances. The rivets E E are alsopassed through above the horizontal rail or stringer F of the panel,said lower stringer, F, being oval or angular in cross-section, thecurves forming the oval being on the upper and lower sides of said lowerstringer, F. The cap-pieces G of the fence-pickets H and fence -posts BB are also constructed in two parts, G G which are (No model.)

provided in their inner faces each with a longitudinal groove, H,extending nearly to a transverse half-oval groove, I, beneath alaterally-extending shoulder, l, on the larger casting G.

The castings G G inclose the upper stringer, J, which is oval incross-section to fit the seat formed by the junction of the parts G Gand a rivet, K, is passed through registering holes K K below the ovalstringer J, and is upset 011 its headless end, thereby holding the partstogether.

The parts G G have the longitudinal grooves H slightly enlarged at L L,so that when the parts G G are riveted in place around the flattened orenlarged ends M of the fence-pickets H and fence-postsB B the latterwill be secured in place at their upper ends. The above description isapplicable to the lower casting N, except that the latter is invertedwhen in place. In the lower castings B" 13* the lower portions of thelongitudinal groovesB" B are made somewhat larger than the upperportions, and the lower end of the fence-posts pass down entirelythrough them and into the bed of stone or other bed on which or in whichthelower end of the post rests. The lower stringer, F, is also oval incross-section,

and the adjacent ends of two of said lower' stringers rest on oppositesides of the posts in the seats formed by the union of the lowereastings B B, two rivets, E E, being passed through the flanges of thecastings E to secure the fence-posts in place.

The sections of the upper stringers, also those of the lower stringers,are provided with lap-joints P, which are secured together by rivets P.The upper diverging arms, Q Q, of the lower castings are provided withlaterally-extending overlapping shoulders R It, which are connectedtogether in pairs by transverse rivets lt. The lower ends of the lowercastings extend below the line of the upper surface of the bed-plates.

It is obvious that thestyle of ornamentation of the upper and lowercastings maybe varied without departing from the character of theinvention.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 18-

1. The combination,with the stringer, of the (the casting having theupwardly-diverging arms and horizontal shouldered arms,) and thesectional stringer seated in the horizontal grooves of the casting,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JULES MOREIN.

\Vitnesses:

THEO. MUNGEN, PHILIP O. Mnsr.

